HUGHESVILLE - Austin Fry belted a two-run home run in the top of the seventh inning, erasing a one-run deficit and lifting Shamokin Area to a 5-4 victory over Hughesville in Heartland II baseball action Monday.
Fry finished with three hits and knocked in three runs. Mike Rodarmel added two singles, and Theo Deptula contributed a double to the Indians' attack.
Ryan Burns worked a complete game with six strikeouts to pick up the victory.
SHAMOKIN (AB-R-H-BI) - Deptula 4-1-1-0, Burns 4-1-1-0, Fry 4-1-3-3, Grinaway 3-1-0-0, Tillett 4-1-1-0, Miller 2-0-0-0, Young 0-0-0-0, Shinskie 1-0-0-0, Bressi 2-0-0-0, Rodarmel 3-0-2-0, Taylor 2-0-0-0. Totals 29-5-8-3.
HUGHESVILLE (AB-R-H-BI) - Hulien 4-0-0-0, Showers 2-1-1-1, Diehl 4-1-1-2, McCarty 4-1-1-0, Booth 2-0-0-0, Sees 1-0-0-0, Lambert 4-0-1-0, Sones 3-1-0-0, Potts 1-0-0-0, Stroup 2-0-1-0, James 3-0-0-0. Totals 30-4-5-3.
Shamokin (6-8) 021 000 2 - 5 8 6
Hughesville 000 130 0 - 4 5 3
2B - Deptula, Lambert HR - Fry, Diehl.
IP H R ER BB K
Shamokin
Burns (W) 7 5 4 1 3 6
Hughesville
Myers (L) 7 8 5 3 1 4
Tri-Valley wins 2
COAL TOWNSHIP - In a Schuylkill League doubleheader at Bunker Hill, the Bulldogs topped Lourdes 15-0 and 16-2.
Michael Gilger and Mike Menapace hit safely for the Raiders in the opener, while Anthony Pennypacker led the Lourdes attack with a double and single in the second game.
Game 1
TRI-VALLEY (AB-R-H-BI) - Spickler 4-2-2-1, Ney 2-1-0-1, Troutman 2-2-1-2, Miller 3-2-1-1, Strohecker 2-1-1-3, Wert 3-2-1-1, Masser 3-2-1-1, Brusso 3-2-2-3, Wehry 3-1-2-2, Waizenegger 1-0-0-0, Baer 1-0-0-0, Beaver 1-0-0-0. Totals 28-15-11-15.
LOURDES (AB-R-H-BI) - Gilger 2-0-1-0, Menapace 2-0-1-0, Pennypacker 2-0-0-0, Melick 2-0-0-0, Chesney 1-0-0-0, Holleran 1-0-0-0, Howal 1-0-0-0, Costa 1-0-0-0, Williams 1-0-0-0, Sowash 0-0-0-0. Totals 13-0-2-0.
Tri-Valley (11)04 - 15 11 0
Lourdes 000 - 0 2 0
2B - Spickler, Masser. 3B - Strohecker.
IP H R ER BB K
Tri-Valley
Miller (W) 3 2 0 0 2 6
Lourdes
Melick (L) .1 7 11 11 4 1
Pennypacker 2.1 4 4 4 3 2
Game 2
LOURDES (AB-R-H-BI) - Gilger 4-1-1-0, Menapace 3-0-0-0, Pennypacker 3-0-2-1, Holleran 3-0-1-0, Melick 3-1-0-0, Chesney 3-0-2-1, Howal 3-0-0-0, Costa 1-0-0-0, Stewart 0-0-0-0, Khanna 2-0-0-0, Sowash 2-0-0-0, Taylor 1-0-0-0. Totals 28-2-6-2.
TRI-VALLEY (AB-R-H-BI) - Spickler 2-2-0-1, Ney 5-3-2-0, Troutman 2-1-1-2, Miller 2-1-1-2, Strohecker 4-2-3-2, Wert 4-1-3-2, Masser 4-0-0-1, Baer 4-0-0-0, Wehry 4-0-0-1, Brusso 3-2-1-2, Waizenegger 2-2-1-1, Beaver 2-2-0-2. Totals 38-16-12-16.
Lourdes 001 10 - 2 6 7
Tri-Valley 4345 x - 16 12 0
2B - Pennypacker, Waizenegger, Wert 2.
IP H R ER BB K
Lourdes
Gilger (L) 4 12 16 8 4 0
Tri-Valley
Strohecker (W) 4.2 6 2 2 4 10
Masser .1 0 0 0 0 1
Halifax 4 Line Mountain 1
HALIFAX - The Eagles' playoff hopes took another hit when the Wildcats' Hunter Rowe fired a four-hitter with 13 strikeouts in the Tri-Valley League victory.
It was the first of eight games this week for Line Mountain, which was led offensively by Matt Bitting with two singles.
LINE MOUNTAIN (AB-R-H-BI) - Smeltz 3-1-0-0, Bitting 3-0-2-1, Welker 3-0-0-0, Karlovich 3-0-0-0, B. Renn 3-0-1-0, Marciniak 2-0-0-0, Adams 2-0-0-0, Snyder 1-0-0-0, Erdman 2-0-0-0, Renn 1-0-0-0, Howerter 1-0-1-0. Totals 24-1-4-1.
HALIFAX (AB-R-H-BI) - Henry 3-0-0-0, H. Rowe 3-0-0-0, M. Osenbach 3-1-1-1, D. Osenbach 2-2-1-0, Reitz 1-1-0-0, Houtz 3-0-0-2, G. Rowe 2-0-1-0, Raker 2-0-1-1, Brennan 3-0-0-0 Totals 22-4-4-4.
Line Mtn. (3-7) 100 000 0 - 1 4 1
Halifax 010 003 0 - 4 4 0
HR - M. Osenbach.
IP H R ER BB K
Line Mountain
Welker (L) 5.2 4 4 2 4 4
Snyder .1 0 0 0 1 0
Halifax
Rowe (W) 6 4 1 1 2 13
Central Columbia 4 Mount Carmel 3
ESPY - Central scored three times in the bottom of the fourth, wiping out a 3-1 Red Tornadoes lead in the Heartland II matchup.
Mount Carmel (6-10) must now win its four remaining games to qualify for the District 4 Class AA playoffs.
Danny Lesko with a double and single, and Mark Minnig with two singles led the Red Tornadoes offensively.
MOUNT CARMEL (AB-R-H-BI) - Venna 3-2-1-1, B. Shustack 4-0-1-0, C. Shustack 3-1-1-1, Swatsky 2-0-0-0, Rimokaitis 4-0-1-0, McFadden 3-0-0-0, Johnson 2-0-0-0, Stutzcavage 2-0-0-0, Minnig 4-1-2-0, Lesko 4-0-2-1. Totals 30-3-8-2.
CENTRAL COLUMBIA (AB-R-H-BI) - Novak 3-2-0-0, McDanel 3-0-1-2, Davis 1-0-1-0, Hock 3-0-1-0, Poirier 0-0-0-0, Klinger 3-0-0-0, Maroney 3-0-1-0, Coombe 0-0-0-0, Schleich 2-1-0-0, Flick 0-0-0-0, Beaver 2-0-0-0, Barratt 0-0-0-0, Thivierge 3-1-1-0. Totals 23-4-5-2.
Mount Carmel 210 000 0 - 3 8 2
Central 100 300 x - 4 5 1
2B - Maroney, Lesko.
IP H R ER BB K
Mount Carmel
Johnson (L) 3.2 5 4 3 3 3
Stutzcavage 2.1 0 0 0 0 1
Central
Beaver 7 8 3 3 4 4
Pottsville 12 North Schuylkill 5
FOUNTAIN SPRINGS - Derek Dumboski drove in three runs with a home run, double and single for the Spartans in the Schuylkill I loss to the Crimson Tide.
POTTSVILLE (AB-R-H-BI) - Hubiak 4-1-1-4, Schappell 5-1-3-1, Schlitzer 5-1-4-2, Delinko 0-0-0-0, Hook 4-2-1-1, Tobin 5-2-3-2, Heffner 4-0-2-0, Hair 3-2-2-1, Tarconish 4-2-2-1, Bridy 3-1-0-0, Miranda 0-0-0-0. Totals 37-12-18-12.
NORTH SCHUYLKILL (AB-R-H-BI) - Demansky 4-0-1-0, Anczarski 1-0-0-0, Hutnick 4-1-1-0, Hornberger 3-0-1-0, Cicioni 0-0-0-0, Klinger 0-0-0-0, McCloskey 0-0-0-0, Caputo 0-0-0-0, Green 3-1-0-0, Dumboski 4-1-3-3, Weist 4-2-2-1, Kovalewski 0-0-0-0, Laudeman 2-0-1-0, Rakowsky 3-0-1-1, Reed 0-0-0-0, Chernewski 1-0-0-0, Wiley 1-0-0-0, Murray 1-0-0-0. Totals 31-5-10-5.
Pottsville 080 103 0 - 12 18 1
NS (12-4, 8-3) 010 040 0 - 5 10 1
Delinko, Tobin (5) and Heffner; Klinger, McCloskey (4), Caputo (7) and Demansky, Anczarski (7). W - Delinko (3-2). L - Klinger (5-2).
2B - Schlitzer, Tobin, Demansky, Dumboski. 3B - Hubiak. HR - Dumboski, Weist.
IP H R ER BB K
North Schuylkill
Klinger (L) 3.2 10 9 9 4 4
McCloskey 2.2 6 3 3 1 3
Caputo 1 2 0 0 0 1
Pottsville
Delinko (W) 4.2 9 5 5 2 7
Tobin 2.1 1 0 0 4 2
Montgomery 11 Southern Columbia 6
MONTGOMERY - Logen Mensinger went 3-for-4 for Southern Columbia, but the Tigers lost their fifth game of the season to Montgomery.
Matt Hoffman added two hits for the Tigers, and Tim Benner got tagged for the loss on the mound.
Southern 100 014 0 - 6 9 5
Montgomery 420 113 x - 11 9 3
Softball
Line Mountain sweeps
MANDATA - Maggie Fessler pitched all 11 innings of Line Mountain's second game with Millersburg and the Eagles won a pair of one-run games over the Indians, 7-6 and 8-7.
Fessler had 15 strikeouts in the second game. Trailing 6-5 in the seventh inning of that game, Line Mountain tied it to force extra innings, and then scored two in the bottom of the 11th after Millersburg put a run across in the top of the inning.
Fessler had five hits between the two games. Jenna Wheary, who won the first game, had two hits and three RBI, and Kasey Long, Emily Wingert and Sara Lahr all had multi-hit afternoons.
Game 1
LINE MOUNTAIN (AB-R-H-BI) - K. Long 4-1-2-2, Witmer 4-1-0-0, Fessler 3-0-2-1, Bradigan 4-1-1-1, Wheary 2-1-0-0, Wingert 4-1-2-1, Masser 3-1-0-0, Stiely 4-1-1-2, Reed 4-0-1-0, Menko 0-0-0-0. Totals 32-7-9-7.
MILLERSBURG (AB-R-H-BI) - Ka. Snyder 4-1-2-0, Mowery 4-1-2-0, Kochenour 4-1-2-0, Ke. Snyder 4-0-1-0, S. Flannery 4-0-0-0, Leshko 3-1-0-0, M. Flannery 2-0-0-0, Zeller 3-2-0-0, Leitzel 3-0-0-0. Totals 31-6-7-0.
Line Mtn. 007 000 0 - 7 9 3
Millersburg 300 201 0 - 6 7 1
2B - K. Long, Bradigan.
IP H R ER BB K
Line Mountain
Wheary (W) 7 7 6 5 0 3
Millersburg
Ke. Snyder (L) 2.1 6 7 6 2 5
Kochenour 4.2 2 0 0 0 5
Game 2
MILLERSBURG (AB-R-H-BI) - Ka. Snyder 6-2-4-0, Mowery 5-1-0-0, Kochenour 5-2-1-0, Ke. Snyder 4-1-1-0, S. Flannery 4-0-0-0, Leshko 5-1-1-0, M. Flannery 5-0-1-0, Zeller 5-0-0-0, Burke 2-0-0-0, Lenker 2-0-0-0. Totals 43-7-8-0.
LINE MOUNTAIN (AB-R-H-BI) - Long 6-0-1-0, Witmer 5-1-1-0, Fessler 6-2-3-1, Bradigan 6-0-1-2, Wheary 4-0-2-3, Wingert 5-1-2-0, Masser 4-0-0-0, Lahr 5-1-3-0, Reed 4-1-1-2, Stiely 1-0-0-0, Menko 0-0-0-0, Woodward 0-2-0-0. Totals 46-8-14-8.
Millersburg 203 100 000 00 - 7 8 0
Line Mtn. 200 300 100 02 - 8 14 3
2B - Bradigan, Reed. 3B - Fessler, Wheary.
IP H R ER BB K
Millersburg
Kochenour 11 14 8 7 2 5
Line Mountain
Fessler 11 8 7 4 3 15
Warrior Run 5 Mount Carmel 0
TURBOTVILLE - The Defenders scored all five runs, courtesy of four Mount Carmel Area errors, in the fourth inning for the Heartland II victory.
Maura Frasch led the Tornadoes' offense with a triple. Tori Chapman and Kelsey Resendes also hit safely.
Ashley Koschoff turned in a solid performance on the mound, despite taking the loss. In a complete game, she scattered four singles and walked only one, while striking out two.
MOUNT CARMEL (AB-R-H-BI) - Resendes 3-0-1-0, Spieller 2-0-0-0, Darrup 3-0-0-0, Chapman 3-0-1-0, Frasch 3-0-1-0, Danilowicz 3-0-0-0, Horsfield 3-0-0-0, Koschoff 2-0-0-0, Lentini 2-0-0-0. Totals 24-0-3-0.
WARRIOR RUN (AB-R-H-BI) - Schrawder 4-0-0-0, Nichols 4-0-0-0, Parker 3-1-1-0, Clements 3-1-0-0, Vermilya 3-0-0-0, D. Schwartz 3-1-1-1, C. Schwartz 3-0-1-1, Hunter 3-1-1-0, Bastian 3-1-0-0. Totals 29-5-4-2.
Mt. Carmel (2-13) 000 000 0 - 0 3 5
Warrior Run 000 500 x - 5 4 0
3B - Frasch.
IP H R ER BB K
Mount Carmel
Koschoff (L) 6 4 5 0 1 2
Warrior Run
Parker (W) 7 3 0 0 1 11
Danville 11, Shamokin 0
COAL TOWNSHIP - Shamokin still needs one win to qualify for the District 4 playoffs after a Heartland Conference Division I setback to Danville.
Steph Pancher had a double for the Indians, but walked five and allowed all 11 runs to absorb the loss.
DANVILLE (AB-R-H-BI) - Herman 4-1-3-2, Cookner 4-0-1-0, Zampetti 2-1-2-1, Bieber 5-0-0-0, Fritz 2-1-0-0, Watkins 3-2-2-0, Walter 2-2-2-1, Shaw 3-1-2-1, Betz 3-1-1-0, Kirkner 1-1-0-1, Mullen 1-0-0-0, Albertson 0-1-0-0. Totals 30-11-13-6.
SHAMOKIN (AB-R-H-BI) - Hornberger 2-0-0-0, Wolfe 3-0-0-0, Pancher 3-0-1-0, Bainbridge 3-0-0-0, Templar 3-0-0-0, Augustitus 3-0-0-0, O. Bonshock 3-0-1-0, Supsic 2-0-1-0, B. Bonshock 3-0-1-0, Haupt 1-0-0-0. Totals 26-0-4-0.
Danville 000 107 3 - 11 13 1
Shamokin 000 000 0 - 0 4 2
2B - Herman, Watkins, Pancher. 3B - Zampetti.
IP H R ER BB K
Danville
Bieber 7 4 0 0 1 3
Shamokin
Pancher (L) 6.1 13 11 11 9 5
Supsic .2 0 0 0 0 0
Pottsville 6 North Schuylkill 1
FOUNTAIN SPRINGS - Brianna Schlauch had the only hit for the Spartans in the Schuylkill I setback to the Crimson Tide.
POTTSVILLE (AB-R-H-BI) - Rushannon 4-2-1-0, Cicero 3-0-1-0, Gerber 4-0-3-2, Miske 4-1-1-0, Wentzel 3-2-2-1, Ke. Jones 4-1-2-3, A. Brennan 0-0-0-0, Herndon 4-0-0-0, Williams 3-0-0-0, Boran 3-0-0-0, Snowell 0-0-0-0. Totals 32-6-10-6.
NORTH SCHUYLKILL (AB-R-H-BI) - Orth 2-0-0-0, Ennis 1-0-0-0, McGrath 2-1-0-0, Newhouser 2-0-0-0, Lapotsky 2-0-0-0, Schlauch 2-0-1-1, Achenbach 2-0-0-0, Spotts 1-0-0-0, Bolinsky 2-0-0-0, Smith 2-0-0-0, Cappel 2-0-0-0. Totals 20-1-1-1.
P (10-6, 9-2) 010 010 4 - 6 10 1
NS (11-5, 7-4) 000 100 0 - 1 1 4
Snowell and Gerber; Lapotsky and Cappel. W - Snowell (6-6). L - Lapotsky (8-3).
2B - Ke. Jones. HR - Ke. Jones.